10 JANUARY 1829

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The American tariff has already been three times before the

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House of Representatives with a view to its modification. On the last motion, the majority, refusing to refer the consideration of the subject to a Committee, was so great (122...

The official return of the public revenue, for the year

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and quarter ended on Monday, has elicited gratulatory observations from all parties—except those whose obliquity of vision sees the advancement of ruin and demoralization to...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

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Vienna papers to the 30th ult. announce that the Porte is making great preparations for the Spring campaign, and that several ves- sels laden with grain have entered...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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LORD ANGLESEY did not resign the government of Ireland ; it was taken from him. His frank intercourse with the Irish appears to have wrought, at a very early period of his vice-...

The House of Assembly of Lower Canada have expressed themselves

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satisfied with all that has been done to redress the grievances of which they complained ; but it seems the remedial measures stop far short of their desires. In a set of...

The Turks appear to have been acting, as we supposed,

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a little on the offensive, but without success,• in. the neighbourhood of Varna. Marauding parties venture from time to time to make in- cursions on the left bank of the...

Lord Strangford's mission to the Brazils is understood to have

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failed ; the Emperor continuing decidedly averse to what are sup- posed to be the wishes of the British Court in regard to the settle- ment of the Government of Portugal. A...

The King of Spain is employed in suppressing a new

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revolt (as it is called) in Catalonia and Valencia. The line of troops towards the frontier of Portugal is to be strengthened. Prince Miguel's physicians have announced his...

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THE KING'S PARTIES.-It has been remarked that the parties of

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his Ma- jesty are principally composed of Whigs. Thus, for instance, at the royal entertainment, on the last day of the year, were the Dukes of Devonshire, and Dorset, Lord and...

THE MONEY -MARKET.

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STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. -The opening of Consols and the payment of the Dividends have caused a great deal of business this week, but the transactions upon the whole have...

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POLICE OF LONDON. ROBBERIES—Boram and Fulcher, two men in the

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service of Mr. Stephenson the fugitive hanker, were on Monday examined at Hatton-garden, on the charge of stealing wine from their toaster's cellar in Bartholomew's Hospital....

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IRELAND AS IT IS, AND AS IT MIGHT BE.

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TIMES—On looking over the lately published distribution of our military force, we observed—what indeed we could hardly be unprepared for—that an enormous proportion of it...

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

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MORNING CHRONICLE—The Duke of Wellington cannot complain of any disposition on the part of the people of this country, or the press, to be unjust towards him. So far from it,...

LORD ANGLESEY'S RECALL. THE PRESS.

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TIMES —.The sentence passed upon Lord Anglesey by the Cabinet court- martial has been dismissed from that service to which he was an ornament and honour. The publication of...

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SELF-GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONIES.

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GLOBE—We wish most heartily the Government would take the people of Jamaica at their words, and allow them and the other West India colonists to govern themselves, and to...

THE MYSTERY OF THE REVENUE.

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MORNING JOURNAL—Our contemporaries are perplexing themselves sadly to account for the increased productiveness of the revenue at a juncture when the manufacturing and...

BANKERS AND BANKING.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. SOME weeks ago, we enjoyed a laugh at the coxcombry of those newspapers that undertake-the guidance of people in the conduct of their own private business....

MOTIVES TO MURDER.

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WE last week remarked with regret on the disposition of a part of the press to add stimulus to the public excitement on the subject of the Edinburgh murders. The Chronicle,...

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THE REAL CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT—THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM.

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" Look not the gift horse in the mouth."—Sancho Panza. THE performance of FARQUHAR'S piece of iniquity, which men censure as they read, and read while they censure, is, for...

FINE WRITING MADE EASY.

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THE man who desires to write fine nonsense with good accepta- tion, should turn the pages of certain articles in the Edinburgh Review with a daily and a nightly hand. There is...

THE SLAVE QUESTION.

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WE have recieved the following communication respecting our notice of Mr. BARCLAY'S hook on the West Indies. " TO TIDE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. "24th December, 1828. " SIR—I...

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

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MR. SPECTATOR—I should be much obliged to you, or to any of your correspondents, if you or they would inform me whether a Roman Ca- tholic can fill the post of Geveriti in...

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WE are unfortunately among those who did not esteem the

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Naval Sketch Book a very amusing production ; and Sailors and Saints*, like its predecessor, has nothing belonging to it better than its title. Pages half occupied by dammees...

THE Tower Menagerie* is a work of luxury : it

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is a collection of the portraits of the King's Wild Beasts, drawn by Mr. HARVEY and engraved in a curious style of excellence in wood by Messrs. BRANSTON and WRIGHT. The life...

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

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" La Conspiration, ou Van mil huit cent vingt un."—This is the title, or rather the first part of the title, of a new Parisian novel, by the Duke de LEVIS, which at the moment...

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THE UNIVERSITIES.

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George Ferris Whidborne Blortimcr, B.A. and Scholar on the Michel Foundation, Queen's College, was appointed Head Master of the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle.upon-Tyne,...

THE CHURCH.

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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFER51F.NTS. The Rev. C. W. Eyre, ALA. of Brazen-Nose Colle g e, Oxford, to the Canonry and Prebend of Strensall, vacant throu g h the preferment of the Rev....

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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We have no arrivals from the East since our last, except the Caroline, Hare, from Batavia. The first Company's ships of the season have been despatched this week as...

THE ARMY.

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War-Office, January 9. Hospital-Staff—Staff-Sur. Donald Macleod, M.D. to be Deputy Inspector of Hos- pitals, vice Ebenezer Browne, deceased.

LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. Tractatus Varii Integri ; a Selection of the mdst valuable Productions of the Fa- thers of the Church during the first four...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Br ItTfl s.—On the 3d inst. at Bishop Thorp-palace, the Lady of Sir John B. John- stone, Bart. of Hackness, of a son and heir—In Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, the Lady of...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, Jan. b. PARTNERS HI /'s DIsSOLVED. T.; T, and T. R. Cobb, Banbury and Shipston-upon-Stour, bankers—H. Donald- son and J, and M. Wotherspoon, Liverpool ; as far as...

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LONDON MARKETS.- CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9.

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We continue most abundantly supplied with Foreign Wheat, having had this week upwards of 67,000 quarters ; and of English Wheat and Flour coastways the arrival is also tolerably...